Of human beings

SOMETIMES JUST LET IT BE

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Don‘t ask what you don’t really want to know. Don’t confirm what you already sense or even know, but are not really interested in knowing. Let things be and leave yourself unburdened and uncluttered and buoyantly light, and focus on only what is really important. Let people tell and keep their lies and falsehoods and secrets without you piercing it with the sword of your questions or lifting the fog with the knowingness of your words. Let them keep on carrying that weight, if it is what they desire, and let it continue to twist and distort them, if it means so much to them. Separate yourself from that chaos and from that filth and remain unburdened, light and free. Sometimes, leave people alone in their personal inner struggle. Just send up a prayer for them and walk away. They too deserve to walk their path of development in peace.

It is not important to confirm everything one senses or to reveal everything one knows; it is not important to expose every lie. It is not important to voice every thought one has concerning a person. If it is a matter that plays no active role in your life, or does not gravely affect something to which you are morally or loyally beholden, you may want to leave it be and pass it by. And if it is something from which you can detach yourself, no matter how much essential importance it once seemed to hold in your life, then pull yourself away from it and walk away. You don’t have to tell it why, if it is pretending not to know why. And you don’t have to expose the lie it wants to keep secret, unless it really affects you and plays a role in your life. If not, let it be and simply detach yourself and move on. It is not necessary for people to know everything you know about them. Wisdom and maturity lie in silence, when words are unnecessary.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

HUMAN DIGNITY

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Whatever you take from people,
Try not to take away their dignity –
It is what makes us human. Simple.
Human dignity is a kind gift from Divinity.
Preserve it as much as you can
In every child, in every man, in every woman,
It confirms to us that we are human.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

WHO ARE YOU TODAY?

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It is better to know a person’s character than to know the person’s history. You might think that you will not know the character fully if you don’t know the history, and there might be some truth to that. However the history might obscure and distort your assumption on the present character and give you a wrong impression and make you miss the person right in front of you now. You come to understand the character by observing and experiencing the person in front of you now. That’s the most important thing. Every other information about the past that you get should be put in context with the present.

People say if you don’t know where a person is coming from you won’t understand the person. But it works both ways. For me, the present is more important. If I don’t experience, analyse, intuitively perceive and understand a person as they are now, I won’t know where they are coming from even if they tell me. Because information is not knowledge. Only experiencing and reflection, leading to recognition, is true knowledge of a person.

Knowing what I did in the past does not tell you who I am. At all. Believe me. Yes, it gives you clues, but some choices I make today will still baffle you. Because I have a free will. To really know who I am today, you have to experience and read me TODAY. Then you will also understand my past and perceive what my future might be.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

DIFFERENTLY YOU

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If you are different
No matter how diffident
You try to be
They will still see
That you are different.

So, do you
And be true
All the way through
Their mean or funny looks –
A dose of courage is all it takes.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

LYING

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When people lie
Their energy shouts Why
Even as their mouths deny.

In every human eye
There is a buried cry.

To lie is, a little, to die.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

COME INTO THE LIGHT

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Come into the light
Here where Home is bright
Let us exchange insight
With the same intensity
With which we sometimes fight
Let Honesty be our Propensity
At the very Height
Of our Intimacy
It will feel right, it will feel so right
Without a shred of complacency.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

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Beautiful women
Come from the land of within
And lead you back up
Into the land of within
And when they beautify
The world within you
You feel you’re In Paradise
In your world
And when they beautify you
In your inner world
You feel beautiful
And you become beautiful
In every other world.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

I WANT TO GROW

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I want to grow
I want to know
What’s outside the window
Of my sorrow

I want to go
Where pain cannot follow
Too deep to flow
Too far for tomorrow

The incredible today Show
Thousandfold ecstasy and woe
Changes me into what I need to know
Ahead of tomorrow.

Many more miles to go
The first step is to sow
Hope, sow Joy, sow kindness despite sorrow
Growth is a stream, gently row.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

VICISSITUDES

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I never knew there was so much love
In the world until I was down;
I never knew there was so much hate
In the world until I wore a crown.

You just have to accept humanity the way it is;
People will surprise you with their love and their hate;
People will surprise you with betrayal and with loyalty;
A thousand changes everyday will be your fate.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

WORLDS

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As I travel the world outwardly, I also travel through myriads of inner worlds inwardly.

Within short periods, I interact with people of different mentalities, characters, backgrounds, histories, personalities and inner worlds; people whose inner lives are often completely different from mine but sometimes also extraordinarily similar to mine.

And I’ve learned one thing. It is not the outer world that is big and vast; it is the inner world that is vaster and more diverse than the universe. But it is also that same inner world that is the smallest, most singular and most undifferentiated space in all of creation.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains